On-line Communities...

Ok, so I didn’t post this video do show a pod-cast about video games, but rather a pod-cast created by an on-line community. I have been fascinated with on-line communities for quite some time. On of my professor’s pointed out to me just how much time society spends with each other now on-line. I mean if you look at it, I find out more about my friends sometimes through such site as Live-Journal and MySpace than I do in person. In some ways it’s kinds of sad that people tend to spend more times with people via the web then with people in the real world. People seem to be able spend hours playing World of Warcraft or watching videos on Youtube and telling each other their opinions on them, yet they can’t take a half hour to grab a cup of coffee with a friend they haven’t see in two months. It’s fascinating just how much time people can spend on these sites. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m just as guilty as other, but I just wonder what it is that causes us to get some caught up and lost in them. I’m on so many of them. I have accounts on Live-Journal, MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, Youtube, Second-Life, Blip.TV, PodShow and Friendster; though never really use it that much. I’m already looking to start a Flickr account and one for 1-Up.com which given my love for video games that I would already have one. It’s sites like these in which new media is going to be the center of. Whether or not the site acts as the storage space for the media, or it is a place for you to show it people are starting to utilize it like crazy. We haven’t even begun to see what will be done. I mean people are already using MySpace to advertise their bands and music, but how long until someone advertises the premier of their movie by having viewed on their page?